Morning journal and courier., 1887-07-26

| l A MoosUP LAD ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.
 The son of Henry Tillinghast, of Moosup,
 while playing with revolver Saturday, ac-
 cidentally shot himself in the stomach and
 cannot recover.
 DIED IN CHESHIRE.
 Nathan Booth of Cheshire, an old and re.
 spected citizen, died on Friday, aged eighty
 seven. He was a civil engineer and had been
 active in politics and had served several
 terms ill the legislature.
 | CARRIAGE AND BICYCLE.
 Mr. and Mrs. c. c. Loomis of Parkville,
 Hartford, were thrown from carriage in a | collision with bicycle Sunday. Both sus-
 tained internal injuries and Mrs. Loomis' 1 shoulder was fractured.
 | TO THE PENITENT1ARY.
 Henry P. Metcalf, the forger of a govern ! ment check whom Sheriff Morriss and l United States marshal succeeded in running down at house in Greeneville last fall has | been sent to the Laramie City penitentiary for
 three years by the United States district
 court in session at Denver, Col. OLD HOLLANDS FAIR.
 The fair of the Holland County Agrieul- ! tural society will be held at Rockville Octo-
 Der 4-6. W. D. Holman of Holland, 0. W. Cowles of Manchester, E.W.Lee of Coventry, | c. H. Pease of South Windsor and E. H.
 Lathrop of Vernon have been appointed to II act with the officers in making arrangements | for the fair. It is intended to make the fair | specially attractive.
 DIED IN VIRGINIA. Richmond Corey, father of Street Con- missioner Corey, of Hartford, died last week in l Hampton, Virginia. The deceased served ! his country three months in the Third regi- | ment of Connecticut volunteers. and three years in the Eighteenth. He lost a limb in
 the service and received pension of $50 8
 month. His death was sudden; probably
 caused by the extreme heat.
 l DIED IN LONDON, ENG. ! William Wadsworth Russell, son of the late Samuel w. Russell, of Middletown, died 1 in London Eng, on Friday last. He had Q sunstroke the week previously and his moth | CT was cabled to come to him. She left | week ago on the Servia with Dr. Edgerton | and family, but of course could not get to ! London before her son died. Mir. Russell was married and was about 27 years old. CLOSED FOR A TIME. ! It Is understood that the works of the | United States Stamping company of Port ! land, Conn.,, will be closed until a receiver is appointed and prepared to take charge. AS
 the concern is doing good business it is not probable that it will close many weeks. The \ financial difficulties which embarrass it were | caused by outside speculstions. The em- l ployes were paid in full Saturday night. DIED IN SOUTH WINDSOR. Samuel Tudor Wolcott, son of Abial Vol | colt, whose father, William the second, was graduate of Yale in 1734, and tutor there | 1856, died at his home, South Windsor | Saturday, aged eighty-seven years and seven l months. His great grandfather William was | a brother of Governor Roger Wolcott. He | was formerly director in the Connecticut
 River Banking company, and director at | the time of his death in the Hartford Woven | Wire Mattress company.
 l DEATH OF TRINITY GRADUATE. | Joseph H. Leggett, a lawyer forty-fve l years old, was found dead yesterday morning ! in cell of the Nineteenth precinct station at New York. He had been drinking heavily | for couple of weeks and was found intoxi-
 cated in the street Sunday night and taken | to the station house. He was we'll known as 8 criminal lawyer and was formerly active in Kings county politics. He was graduate of | Trinity college, Hartford, and leaves a widow and children.
 MRS. AURORA HINsDALE. The death of Mrs. Aurora Hinsdale widow | of Lorain Hinsdale of New Britain, occurred Saturday from heart disease at the house of her sister, Mrs. Charles Blakeslee of that city, The deceased was an aunt of Lieutenant | Colonel B. F. Blakeslee, of Hartford. She was member of the Center Conereeational | church in New Britain and was an exceeding | ly estimable lady. Her age was seventy years. three months and twenty days. The | funeral occurred yesterday afternoon at New Britain
 AFoRMER HARTFORD MAN. | The late MT. Samuel F. Barrows was na- tive of Mansfield, but came to Hartford as a , boy and lived there until about thirty years I of age. He was member of the Governors | Foot Guard and of the old Neptune Hose ill | it's palny days. He married a daughter of
 the late Daniel Copeland. He removed to l Cold Spring, N. Y., about 1840 and became | connected with the West Point foundry, | where he has spent the rest of his life. He l was brother of MT. F. F. Barrows, princi- | pal of the Brown school, Hartford. HIGH WATER IN THE CONNECTICUT. | LAKE PLEASANT, Mass, July 24.-This has | been the most severe rain ever known in this vicinity. The water in Lake Pleasant is two | feet higher than ever before The roar of | the mountain streams sounds like that of the ! ocean, and can be heard for miles. There was reported rise in the Connecticut river | of ten feet in one hour and twenty minutes No trains have passed here since morning. l A washout is reported on the Fitchburg | road, near Frying, ten feet long and twenty | feet deep. All carriage roads in this vicinity are badly damaged and many bridges carried | away.
 MT. John c. Hicks, the father of the ! Bridgeport boy whose proceedings have re- | gently gained him good deal of notoriety, says that the story as far as it relates to the visit to Bridgeport is without foundation. The most important part does net seem to
 be particularly affected, but here is the state | ment as MT. Hicks gave it to the Meriden Re- l publican: ''The boy did not go near Bridge port. He went to Hartford and stayed with I gate tender there all night. He then went \ to his uncle's Hartford restaurant and got | something to eat, but did not try to get any | money. He then went to New York on the boat and came back to New Haven. There, ! he says, he picked pond lilies and earned ! money enough by selling them to get back to Hartford, his money having run out. Mr. Hicks says that the sum lost was not over $200 at the outside. and from Arthur's story blame as himself. The latter denies it, and there the matter lies. it seems that the two boys have been to New Haven and Hartford two or three times together. The Hicks boy has no uncle in Bridgeport and has never been there." FREAKS OF LIGHTNING. The Willimantic Journal gives the follow ing description of discharge of lightning
 in that place "A shed at the Elkins & Cal
 kins quarry was struck during the shower on Sunday afternoon last. The bolt evidently entered at the east end, and then ploughed through the center of the south side of the
 roof the entire length, tearing up the shingles
 and leaving jagged track. At the west end | the bolt seemed to have separated into three
 parts, each going down post and shivering
 it. Near the post that suffered the most
 stood two-horse wagon, but it was not in |
 Jure0 In the leasG. AoouG seVenty-hve feet
 from the shed lightning struck a pole that l
 had been placed between two trees, from
 which was suspended swing. This was
 riven by the bolt and lodged against one of |
 the trees on which it had rested Three l
 trees showed that they had been touched by |
 the lightning. It is little singular that the |
 lightning should have skipped down three |
 posts supporting one end of the shed and ! down the same number of trees seventy-fiye | feet away. Two or three rods from the lat ter is a magazine of powder and dynamite. 1 Had that, too, been struck, the explosion l would have been a terrific one."